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I've seen a few of the famous quotes, but the Marathon itself is too spherical to be the old flying Space Spud. Bungie has often referred back to Old Marathon but this feels off. It's like someone is doing this only reading Wikiquote and a few summaries. I did see hints of Tau Ceti's spaceport being nuked, and the involvement of MIDA as a contractor, so there's a few hints of the deep lore.

They're cagey about the story as well, suggesting they don't have a written one yet. I'll bet they were starting towards a proper story and an author keen on the original Marathon left with the pieces sat idle in the meantime as the game grew.

It also feels incomplete, lots of pve features despite pvp extraction as the stated goal. I think this was intended to have multiple game modes, several factions trying to find something left behind, Tycho making a move on the ruins controlled by fragments of Leela. Throw in a bonus UESC force Sent by a hint from Durandal who is still off having his own brand of fun elsewhere. Perhaps Straus's plans with the Colony long term come up.

A dream perhaps. On an Idea for a new Aleph One Scenario.

It's almost certainly not going to have much connection to the Marathon series beyond the name and general thematic direction.

I would love to be priced wrong.

Such a shame. I do think Halo was very much already the spiritual successor to Marathon, and I know all the studios just want to have the big multiplayer game that everyone plays for years and years these days, but man was I excited when I first saw the teaser for this last year. I still name all my computer equipment after Marathon AIs.

lol yeah, is this going to be Concord all over again?

Off topic but I genuinely can't understand why people like to throw battle royales and extraction shooters into the same pot. The fact that battle royales have been immensely successful (PUBG, Fortnite, Apex) while the only extraction shooter with relative success is Escape From Tarkov (I won't get into the details but pretty much everyone hates to play) should be indication that any similarities between the two genres are entirely superficial.

They cater to very different audiences.

Don't forget that they spent 150 million on getting Alberto Mielgo to make a cool cinematic trailer for the game.

Premium in this context means it'll cost money. Not full priced means it won't be £70.

I don't even understand what they mean....

I mean, Nintendo already got away with it. People are pissed, but you already have people saying theyre gona buy it anyway.

And it'll have all the microtransaction features executives have come to expect. Overpriced battlepass, loot boxes, overpriced fomo cosmetic store.

Marathon will be a premium title. Marahton will not be a ‘full-priced’ title.”

I am playing Stardew Valley and there is so much to do in the game that I'm set for this year.

I've spent more time in minecraft and terraria (and skylim, released in 2011, which I last played in 2023) than I have in any other games, and those aren't exactly what I'd call "premium". I'd agree that more than money needs to be poured into a game to make it good.

Does it at least tell me I'm pretty for the "premium" price?

Probably only available for the digital deluxe ultimate limited edition.

Which will also be available a month later as a twenty dollar microtransaction.

I think 'premium' in this case is synonymous with 'not free to play'.

As soon as they dropped the trailer and said it was an extraction shooter, my interest dropped to 0.